Allocating spiritual rewards: the power of the mass for the souls of the dead

Virtus missae and its development

The money economy and the afterlife

Candles for Our Lady: the arts faculty nations as confraternities

Candles in the ceremonies of the nations

The churches of the nations

Nations as confraternities

Gaudy night: colleges and prayers for the dead

Halls and colleges

Medieval colleges and memorials for the dead

Medieval colleges and Islamic Madrasas

A hidden presence: women and the University of Paris

Women and higher education in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

University wives

Women in trades connected to the university

Women as founders of colleges

The growth of Marian devotion

Dedications to the Virgin before

1200

The image of the Virgin on individual seals

Marian devotion as evidenced in college statutes

Marian iconography on magisterial seals

Balancing inequality.

"In his fascinating new book, based on the Conway Lectures he delivered at Notre Dame in 2016, William Courtenay examines aspects of the religious life of one medieval institution, the University of Paris, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In place of the traditional account of teaching programs and curriculum, however, the focus here is on religious observances and the important role that prayers for the dead played in the daily life of masters and students. Courtenay examines the university as a consortium of sub-units in which the academic and religious life of its members took place, and in which prayers for the dead were a major element. Throughout the book, Courtenay highlights reverence for the dead, which preserved their memory and was believed to reduce the time in purgatory for deceased colleagues and for founders of and donors to colleges. The book also explores the advantages for poor scholars of belonging to a confraternal institution that provided benefits to all members regardless of social background, the areas in which women contributed to the university community, including the founding of colleges, and the growth of Marian piety, seeking her blessing as patron of scholarship and as protector of scholars. Courtenay looks at attempts to offset the inequality between the status of masters and students, rich and poor, and college founders and fellows, in observances concerned with death as well as rewards and punishments in the afterlife."--Publisher.

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